English Teachers’ Problems in Implementing Contextual Teaching and Learning in Junior High School

This research has two aims: (1) To investigate teacher’s problems in implementing CTL in
teaching (2) To describe the strategies used by teachers to solve the problems. The research was
conducted by using descriptive qualitative analysis. It was completed at SMP NEGERI 37
Medan. The data were gathered by interviews and classroom observation. From the result of the
research, It was found that the first teacher has some problems in implementing CTL. The
problems are students were shy to speak up in the class because they had lack of vocabulary.
Students think that their pronunciation is bad so that it makes them afraid of being wrong and
make them are not active in the class, and the problems in implementing CTL for the second
teachers are lack of students interest in learning English so it makes students do not focus in
learning. The students also do not have confident to present in front of the class, so that the
strategy of CTL does not work well. As a result of the research, the problems of teachers in
implementing CTL is students don’t have confident to speak up in the classroom and the students
are also lack of interest in learning so they less practice their English. Every English teacher uses
different strategies in implementing CTL to make students interest and not get bored in learning
process.